On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
> This value is used currently for virtio-blk only. It was defined
> as uint16_t before, which is the same as in kernel<=>user interface
> (in virtio_blk.h, struct virtio_blk_config). But the problem is
> that in kernel<=>user interface the units are sectors (which is
> usually 512 bytes or more), while in qemu it is in bytes. However,
> for, say, md raid5 arrays, it is typical to have actual min_io_size
> of a host device to be large. For example, for raid5 device of
> 3 drives with 64Kb chunk size, that value will be 128Kb, which does
> not fit in a uint16_t anymore.
>
> Increase the value size from 16bits to 32bits for now.
>
> But apparently, the kernel<=>user interface needs to be fixed too
> (while it is much more difficult due to compatibility issues),
> because even with 512byte units, the 16bit value there will overflow
> too with quite normal MD RAID configuration.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru>
> ---
> block.h | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)